Durgesh Shisode

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About Durgesh Shisode

As a Strategic DevOps Architect, I bring 14+ years of experience in transforming software delivery through DevSecOps, SRE excellence, and automation at scale. I specialise in building high-performing global DevOps teams, streamlining release management, and embedding reliability engineering into business-critical systems. My strategic leadership has consistently delivered measurable outcomes across large-scale transformation programs. I’m passionate about AI/ML integration into DevOps workflows and driving enterprise modernisation through actionable metrics and innovation. Built and led global DevOps & SRE teams from inception, establishing enterprise-wide automation and observability standards, while aligning KPIs to DORA metrics, MTTR, ICBC, and many more. Architected enterprise release management frameworks using DigitalAI and Plutora, enabling on-demand releases globally and equipping leadership with real-time deployment insights for data-driven decision-making. Pioneered AI-driven defect management via a RAG-based ChatBot integrated with JIRA — reducing defect logging time by 60%, freeing up 300+ hours/month. Successfully transitioned DevOps operations from vendor-managed to in-house by establishing a core team within the Digital Business Unit, resulting in 40% cost reduction and 30% faster issue resolution times. Designed branching strategy and DevOps automation pipelines, transforming monthly release cycles to on-demand, enhancing agility and time-to-market for critical business functions. Architected robust DevOps frameworks for on-prem apps cutting deployment time from 9 hours to under 2 hours, with built-in quality gates and rollback safety, which achieved 95% deployment success rate. Led SLO implementation in Dynatrace, improving incident insights, reducing alert noise by 20%, and decreasing 5% MTTR through a structured incident response framework and Blameless Postmortem process and framework to prevent major INCs. Championed Agile, BDD, and CI/CD training across multiple organisations, upskilling 30+ engineers and accelerating test automation adoption across business units. Technical Authority- Certified Expert: AIMLOps (IISc), AWS, Kubernetes (CKAD), Terraform, TOGAF- Core Competencies: Global team leadership, CI/CD pipeline design, AI/MLOps strategy, and risk governance. Let’s Connect If You Need- A leader to scale DevOps/SRE practices, enterprise-grade release management with a focus on AI-driven automation- A partner to solve complex operational challenges through Generative AI/LLMOps innovation.